Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Perry, UT

Perry is a city in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, and its population was 5,555 in the 2020 census.

Land in the Perry area was first claimed in 1851 by Orrin Porter Rockwell and his brother Merritt at a place now called Porter Spring, and settlement by Latter-day Saint pioneers began in 1853 at a settlement known as Three Mile Creek, three miles south of Box Elder, now Brigham City.

In 1898 the community was renamed Perry after Gustavus Adolphus Perry and his family, who were among the early settlers, and the Welsh Settlement midway between Three Mile Creek and Box Elder had joined with Three Mile Creek in 1869.

Perry is bordered by Brigham City to the north and Willard to the south, and its east side is bordered by Cache National Forest at the northern end of the Wasatch Range.

Interstate Highways 15 and 84 run through the western side of Perry, and U.S. Route 89 runs through the center of the city.

Perry was historically rural and agricultural, with family dairies, cattle farms, and fruit orchards, and its fruit stands along U.S. 89 are part of the area known as Utah's Fruit Belt, though it is now primarily a suburban residential community.

In the 2020 census, Perry had 1,644 households and a median age of 34.4 years, with 33.8 percent of residents under the age of 18.

Perry covers 8.0 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 4,301 feet.

In June 1896, a partially completed reservoir at the mouth of Three Mile Creek Canyon, now Perry Canyon, overflowed and flooded much of the town, destroying homes and covering farms with mud and gravel, and a second flood in 1923 caused less damage.

Perry is part of the Box Elder School District, with Three Mile Creek Elementary and the Promontory School of Expeditionary Learning in the city, while students attend schools in Willard and Brigham City for other grades.